Twisted_Logic wrote:Murax,
The Mogadishu, Kismayo and Barbera Port were build by the civilian government in the 1960s.
Effectiveness of Foreign Aid-The Case of Somalia
Author(s): Ozay Mehmet
Source: The Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1 (May, 1971), pp. 31-47
Published by: Cambridge University Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/159250
.The Plan was to spend a total of 1,400 million Somali Shillings (So.Sh.).2 Its simple development strategy concentrated attention on a handful of projects: an increased output of sugar through expanding the productive capacity of the existing factory at Johar; the development of meat packing, fish processing, milk and dairy products, textiles, and a few other industries; the construction or improvement of a number of roads; building three seaports at Kisimayo, Berbera, and Mogadiscio; the expansion of irrigation for crops and fodder; the formation of a number of state farms; and certain improvements in social services, including education and health. Sectoral allocations of planned investment outlays reflected a greater priority for physical infrastructure than agricultural development or population settlement. Twenty-nine per cent of total development outlays were earmarked for transport development, with I7-8 per cent allocated to agricultural projects. Industrial development, with an allocation of I5'7 per cent of the total development budget, was assigned an almost equal priority with agriculture
With all due respect, MSB wasn't a typical ruler that would yield to internal pressure. His was one of the most ruthless regimes in Africa, forget about political opponents, even school teachers who were suspected of not being welcoming to his ideology were taken from their homes in the dark of the night, never to be seen again. Their bodies were frequently seen in the beaches of Mogadishu to serve as a lesson to those who would dare to challenge the despotic rule of Siyad Barre.
MSB came to power through the barrel of the gun, and the gun, in the end removed him from power.
Dictators as You say come and go all over the world. No matter How ruthless they were always removed by force and replaced. Sometimes by better administrations and sometimes with similar ones. However it is unprecedented that a President was overthrown by rebel movements headed by Men aspiring to be drug plantation overloards and human checkpoint kingpins posing as reformists. I'd be damned, I'd prefer to keep My mouth shut and sing ever Guulwade mealody in the world, than have My Sons pay their weight in isbaaro checkpoints and have Soomali Women have to strip naked and do niiko if they didn't have money to get past the isbaaro. I'd take a 'despot' over that any day of the week.
